Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to comments made by his Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government this morning on the Steve Price Morning Show. I quote:

Steve Price: The restaurant industry today is predicting 1,000 restaurants will close and two and a half thousand jobs will disappear if this industrial relations change becomes law.

Albanese: They were all going to disappear over various other issues from time to time.

Does the Prime Minister agree with his own minister that 1,000 restaurants are due to close and thousands of jobs are to disappear no matter what the government does, or is this just the risk of a Rudd recession?

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